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Not "the" problem, but definitely "a" problem in my opinion. If you're someone like me, in Australia, who always figured he was a left leaning liberal, some of

Not "the" problem, but definitely "a" problem in my opinion. If you're someone like me, in Australia, who always figured he was a left leaning liberal, some of the stuff coming out of CRT sounds right up there with young earth creationism. But creationism has effectively lost the battle against science. I'm therefore more concerned at present with the far left, while keeping an eye on those other crackpots on the right.

southerntofu 5y ago
Care to elaborate? As someone coming from France where racial studies are illegal and considered racist (by the actually-racist establishment who still deports/murders/exploits/pillages communities to this day), i don't see any relation between racial study and creationism or other pseudo-sciences. You seem to be worried about a strawman: what you call the "far left" has really little power beyond symbolism of preventing an actual fascist of organizing a meeting. The actual power, political and economic, resides in the far-right who's very well established in society and has been relentlessly campaigning and organizing. And i can tell you their campaigns are otherwise more violent than those of the so-called far left. As i'm witnessing the new rise of fascism here in France, i can tell you the overall ambience both in the streets and on campuses was much more pleasant twenty years ago when declaring sympathies for Hitler or Le Pen would have gotten you socially excluded from the group (except in a few fascist-friendly universities in the bourgeois neighborhoods). The fascists are rising again: when you see dozens/hundreds of neo-fascist militiamen charging alongside riot cops (who are famously pro-FN for the vast majority of them) to beat down and send to the hospital anti-racist demonstrators (such as happened during the first Zemmour speech a few months back), it's time to choose which side you wanna be on.
- dissent 5y ago
  I will have to take your word for it. I'm in my 40s, I'm from the UK, I live in Australia, and I don't really feel what you're saying. It sounds like hyperbole. Perhaps you need to be living in France to see it. All I see is a major ramp up in censorship and attack on free inquiry coming from the left over the last 10 years. This is becoming normal. I'm not really worried about it per se, it is what it is. I'll adjust accordingly, be careful what I say in public, and my children will grow up adjusted to it. The question is whether society as a whole will be better off or not. I suspect not, but who knows. In regards to the rise of the far right, it seems conceivable it's a reaction to the extremes of the far left. It's political polarization and I'd tend to lay blame on the dogmatists on both sides. I find them equally absurd, but I'm more disappointed in the left. That was my original point.

southerntofu 5y ago

Care to elaborate? As someone coming from France where racial studies are illegal and considered racist (by the actually-racist establishment who still deports/murders/exploits/pillages communities to this day), i don't see any relation between racial study and creationism or other pseudo-sciences. You seem to be worried about a strawman: what you call the "far left" has really little power beyond symbolism of preventing an actual fascist of organizing a meeting. The actual power, political and economic, resides in the far-right who's very well established in society and has been relentlessly campaigning and organizing. And i can tell you their campaigns are otherwise more violent than those of the so-called far left. As i'm witnessing the new rise of fascism here in France, i can tell you the overall ambience both in the streets and on campuses was much more pleasant twenty years ago when declaring sympathies for Hitler or Le Pen would have gotten you socially excluded from the group (except in a few fascist-friendly universities in the bourgeois neighborhoods). The fascists are rising again: when you see dozens/hundreds of neo-fascist militiamen charging alongside riot cops (who are famously pro-FN for the vast majority of them) to beat down and send to the hospital anti-racist demonstrators (such as happened during the first Zemmour speech a few months back), it's time to choose which side you wanna be on.

dissent 5y ago
I will have to take your word for it. I'm in my 40s, I'm from the UK, I live in Australia, and I don't really feel what you're saying. It sounds like hyperbole. Perhaps you need to be living in France to see it. All I see is a major ramp up in censorship and attack on free inquiry coming from the left over the last 10 years. This is becoming normal. I'm not really worried about it per se, it is what it is. I'll adjust accordingly, be careful what I say in public, and my children will grow up adjusted to it. The question is whether society as a whole will be better off or not. I suspect not, but who knows. In regards to the rise of the far right, it seems conceivable it's a reaction to the extremes of the far left. It's political polarization and I'd tend to lay blame on the dogmatists on both sides. I find them equally absurd, but I'm more disappointed in the left. That was my original point.